The previous PP leadership informed Feijo’s team of an agreement with the government to renew the judiciary.

The twentieth turn of the Popular Party regarding the blockade of the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary makes clear a new excuse: Alberto Núñez Feijoo did not know about the agreement reached between his party and the government in October 2021, because he did not understand the direction of the previous Pablo Casado. “When I met with Mr. Casado, he did not talk to me about any agreement or give me any documents,” the PP leader said publicly on Thursday, ignoring the pact.

These statements particularly disturbed the environment of his predecessor. Casado’s previous direction explains that the new excuse put forward by Feijoo involves a veiled accusation of obscurantism and a lack of transparency in the transition process, which they categorically deny. In fact, as elDiario.es was able to verify, the former popular secretary general, Teodoro García Egea, held several coordination meetings with Feijoo’s right-hand man, Esteban González Pons, and one of them was specifically about judicial matters. When asked by this newspaper, González Ponce did not deny the meeting or that he was personally informed of the agreement by García Egea, although he preferred not to offer any assessment on the matter.

According to sources in the previous leadership of Genoa, García Egea provided him with details on the state of negotiations with the government in many areas and, in particular, on the agreement reached on the renewal of the leadership of the judges. They also remember that the current Parliamentary Speaker of the Popular Party, Kuka Gamara, was also part of this leadership and had all the information about it, which Gamara’s team denies.

This Thursday, former PP undersecretary Pablo Montesinos said that “there was a transfer of power to different branches, and one of them was, of course, a court case.” “I know that there was communication between the former person in charge and the new one on this matter. The spokesperson of the Parliament has not changed. This dialogue really took place on all issues, the other thing is that they wanted to start negotiations from scratch,” said Montesinos on laSexta.

At the same time, the government continues to make Alberto Núñez Feijoo’s attitude ugly by maintaining the blockade imposed by Pablo Casado on constitutional bodies such as the CGPJ and directly accusing the opposition leader of lying and “unreliability”. Executive sources claim that Cuca Gamarra and Esteban González Pons not only knew about the agreement reached in October 2021, but also had the signed document in hand, as they came to negotiation meetings with a copy of it. Minister Felix Bolanos after the change in PP leadership.

“It was not discussed in the steering committee”

Now the PP is trying to defend the literal meaning of Feijo’s words and obscure whether they were aware of the agreement, claiming that the only thing the opposition leader is claiming is that an agreement has been reached with the government on renewal. The CGPJ, signed by Teodoro García Egea and Félix Bolaños, was never considered the leadership committee of the Popular Party. “Not a single document or issue signed between the minister and the former secretary general of the party was discussed in any steering committee,” Feijo stressed on Thursday. Popular current presidential sources also note that Pedro Sánchez did not mention this document during the meeting at Moncloa Palace.

From the previous administration, they admit that negotiations with the government on issues such as the renewal of the CGPJ were conducted in a “very careful” manner to protect the confidentiality of conversations between García Egea and Bolaños, but they explain that the fact that there was no open debate about them In the committee, “not at all” does not mean that they did not move to the new party leadership or that the parliamentary spokesperson was not aware of such a current position.

This latest chapter of the institutional blockade, which will last four years, comes under the leadership of the opposition of Alberto Núñez Feijo, who took office with a sense of moderation and promised to contribute from the “controversy of politics” to the “sense of the state”. In an interview with the newspaper El Mundo in June, his most trusted man and the new Institutional Undersecretary, Esteban González Ponce, came to present a change to the entire position established by Pablo Casado regarding the blockade of the CGPJ: “The CGPJ must be renewed using the current law. To maintain that the council is not renewed and the law is not applied is inappropriate for the legislator. If the legislator does not like the law, he changes it. But as long as the law is the law, he applies it,” Gonzalez Pons firmly assured.

It has been five months since Feijoo took office and, for now, the PP’s excuses are one after the other, while the law remains unenforced. Pressure is mounting on the government to finally agree to block the judges’ governing body from the main opposition party. However, in reality, within the executive itself, it is beginning to be assumed that the possibilities are diminishing as the months pass, as are the hopes of a “new PP” for more open dialogue and more inclined to understanding. And even more so at the gates of an election cycle for which conservatives seem to be promising them all too happily.

Source: El Diario

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